Civil war field artillery
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I have been playing with 123d Catch and am somewhat intrigued by its possibilities. This started with a large set of photos of a 2 to 3 inch brass cannon model. I then exported an OBJ from 123D Catch and imported it into SU which almost choked on the file size. Then I applied some styles and composed my shot. From there I took it to PhotoShop to dust it with a little moodiness. Lastly I used FotoSketcher to add more textures and and profile lines.
Lessons learned:
- Always use flat light when making your photo sets.
- Go for 40 to 70 photos.
- Avoid deep shadows.
- Use single focal length prime lenses.
- Keep distance from camera to cent of object as close to the same as possible unless you want to do a lot of tedious manual photo stitching.
- 123 can be used in a very impressionistic manner and under certain conditions it can be used for photogrametry.
- It reveals its capabilities slowly
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Out of interest Rodger what was the file size? And did you consider using mesh lab to reduce the size?
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The model started out with 359,000 edges. I tried using the simplify tool in Artisan and it processed about 1/3rd of the file before choking. Meshlab crashes as soon as I try to open the file.
I should have processed the file for mobile phone resolution right from the beginning to start with a smaller file.
What I have been doing is identifying key points of the model and ripping out overly complex mesh and replacing it with flat surfaces.
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